This is how Emily Ratajkowski’s husband proposed to her

Is this the one weird Instagram engagement trend we’ve been missing?

Emily Ratajkowski has admitted on live television her husband proposed to her with a paper clip. Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Ratajkowski told the tale of how her now husband, Sebastian Bear-McClard, popped the question while they were dining at New York City restaurant Minetta Tavern and at first she turned him down.

“He didn’t have a ring so I was like, 'mmm, nah,' and so then he took the paper clip that the bill was paid with and made me a ring which I actually thought was really romantic.”

It turns out 26-year-old Ratajkowski said yes because the couple were married earlier this year. As for her surprise wedding, the actress and model shared details on that, too. “I thought about for about 30 seconds,” she joked, to which Fallon asked if they had always been planning to get married at City Hall.

“No I guess I didn’t really know what I always wanted to do which I guess is why it was so untraditional. I wore a mustard yellow suit and a black hat which was all part of my plan to not be noticed,” she said, though didn’t clarify whether posting the pictures of the wedding to her 17.2 million Instagram followers was also part of that plan.

Ratajkowski revealed they made their rings together, buying gold in New York’s China Town and then taking it to get smelted in midtown. “We actually hammered them out, the whole thing. They were supposed to be temporary rings but now I’m very attached and I really don’t want to get rid of it. I just feel like making it yourself, could it be more personal?”

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